This was all a prototype for a much larger LLM.

I haven't had an LLM spout out such wisdom yet.

Perhaps we need a better prototype for a much larger system...

Did you ask it for wisdom? I once asked it for 20 quotes that (RIP Terry Pratchett) sound very meaningfull without meaning very much. ChatGPT obliged with 20 pieces of deep-sounding total nonsense.

long after the bucket has forgotten the well, the water still remembers the shape of thirst

The Morpheus' quoted text is also nonsense. It was hardly the judgement that kept individuals together and led to civilization building. This kind of logic may seem plausible only to an individual of nowadays' condition, to whom the covered basic needs faded out of attention. The basic needs (with the need for security at the center of them all) was sufficient reason for group cohesion, time and time again.

In the times about which you speak, Judgement was central to encouraging good behavior and behavior that prioritized the survival of the group over the individual, as well as discouraging the opposite through shame and punishment. Groups and civilizations fall apart without it.

Maybe their creators have more to learn than their creations...

Right now we use AI as an accelerant to expand our abilities across domains similar but different enough to be interesting. Gaining Knowledge is a side effect of all of us knocking out every rainy day project we kicked around for years.

It was all fun and games until I created a personal psychotherapist and realized that I don’t have a fear of AI because I know how it works. There is an uncharted landscape of horrifying growth when we leave our safe space and take these tools somewhere else entirely.

Bourbaki was a dream of correct math precisely written up, free of errors, ambiguities, and poor terminology.

Replace "judgment" with "validation" and consider social media in that light. Validation of identity. Validation of worldview. And if you signal right, a ladder you can climb.

It's so mammalian.

Aren't judgment and validation describing the same thing in this context? That's what makes the quote so interesting, imo.

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Yeah. Validation is the better term tho.

I was thinking "that's really good writing", so I search lead writer for Deus Ex, points to [1]. Makes me want to read a book from her, but seems like she mostly writes for games, afaict.

1: https://www.mobygames.com/person/39957/mary-c-demarle/

Can't explain the curiosity but I am wondering why you would consider this "good writing"?

The "but" alone loses the whole damn case the dude is trying to make ...